Oscar Mistake: See Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway Announce Wrong Oscar Winner

The 89th annual Academy Awards on Sunday night at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood kept viewers guessing all the way till the end about the best picture victor. Halfway through acceptance speeches, producer Jordan Horowitz announced that “Moonlight” was the rightful victor. On Monday, PwC said it mixed up the envelopes given to presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, an error that led to “La La Land” being incorrectly given the best-picture statuette before the unscripted surprise twist: “Moonlight” had actually won.

“The presenters had mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope and, when discovered, was immediately corrected”, it added.

“Linus, on behalf of all of us, we’re so sorry about what happened in Sweden last week”. After announcing “La La Land” had won, the envelope containing the Best Picture victor was brought on stage, and the stunned crowd watched as the “Moonlight” filmmakers were announced the winners.

That Oscar is a honor for Moonlight, but Moonlight is also a gift to Hollywood, which has endured a few years of stinging criticism for lack of diversity among nominees. For best picture, Beatty said he was passed a card with the name of Emma Stone for “La La Land” – the best-actress award she had won earlier in the evening.

While Brian Cullinan, the PwC rep who handed Beatty and Dunaway the wrong envelope, likely didn’t mess up the results on objective, Internet sleuths quickly found that Cullinan was tweeting backstage from the awards.

One possible explanation for this is that, as the L.A. Times previously reported, there are in fact two sets of cards at the show. Host Jimmy Kimmel had come forward to inform the cast that “Moonlight” had indeed won, showing the inside of the envelope as proof.

In an interview on TV show Fox & Friends, to air today, Mr Trump said: “It just seems like the other side, whenever they’re losing badly, they always pull out the race card”.

“I became an artist and thank God I did because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life”, Davis said.

“I’ve watched the Academy Awards before and have and have never seen that happen before”.

On Comedy Central’s “Daily Show”, meanwhile, correspondent Roy Wood, Jr. suggested the “Moonlight” win showed America was operating “at maximum levels of black-tivity” with African-Americans winning much-deserved recognition for achievements.

For her performance in Bonnie and Clyde, Dunaway received her first Oscar nomination in 1968. Here, in Moonlight, is the sort of story mainstream movies rarely tell, acclaimed as the best picture of the year. Affleck denied the allegations which were settled out of court. “We will not forget you”.

Asghar Farhadi’s acceptance speech for Best Foreign Language film turned out to be a pretty memorable protest speech-and he wasn’t even in the room.

“And remember, on the border and throughout our country, we’re getting the bad ones out, the bad people”.